Plant diversity partitioning in grazed Mediterranean grassland at multiple spatial and temporal scales

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1260-1268

  Golodets, Carly ^a   Kigel, Jaime ^a   Sternberg, Marcelo ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diversity; Dominance; Exclosures; Hordeum bulbosum; Landscape; q diversity metrics; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNGULATE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ANIMALIA; BOS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM BULBOSUM; UNGULATA;

EID: 80052794209     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02031.x     Document Type: Article

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